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Traditional oil paintings techniques often begin with the specialist illustrating the subject onto the fabric with grilling or thinned colour. Oil colour is usually mixed with linseed oil, specialist grade mineral mood or other chemicals to create a slimmer, faster or more slowly dehydrating...

A main idea of oil color system is 'fat over lean'. What this means is that each additional aspect of color should contain more oil than the aspect below to allow appropriate dehydrating. If each additional aspect contains less oil, the greatest paintings will crack and eliminate. There are many...